0:00 [Music] welcome back to just kiding news out of the closet we got Ryan and today we're talking about Ryan's return stunning return some people say to America's Best Dance group so um at this point in life imagine like looking at something like ABDC and you look at it like as a Monumental thing and it's just in your memory of like this was and is like one of the greatest things that ever happened to me whatever it's very ████ seldom that that could ever come back around you know like like someone that won a championship ring and retired whatever like they're not going to get back in the game and do it again uh by this point most of us in Quest Crew in our low to mid-30s and we get a call uh I get a call from this guy Dan saxs who was a producer of soy think
0:51 ended up doing ABDC and now he like VP of Warner Horizon he's like so far up the chain I never get calls from people like that he calls me and he's how crazy would it be if you got to get with your boys and do ABDC all over again and we were like no ████ what a pitch no ████ win yeah it's like that dance is like I'm still performing and everything but like it's so far behind me like this is I mean we did ABDC the first time in like 2009 and at this point it's um what is like 2015 2016 2015 yeah and um so I think at the time I was already like 31 or 3 2 or some ████ um and uh at first we said no we were like I we don't want to do it because that's like I I said no mainly because like I knew Jabba wasn't going to do it and like we to us it's
1:43 like that would be the dream competition against jabis and we're like they that wouldn't be dumb enough to do it because they have so much um their I guess like what's in on the line for them is greater than what's on the line for us so what do they have to lose not so much but like they've built such an Empire that why make that bet on the table like they're cemented as the against other Crews yeah got it against other Crews that don't have equal amount of chips you know what I mean like it's not even and I understand that so we didn't feel like doing it and then uh we would have these we had this meeting about it half of us is dancing half of us are filming [Music] kiss
2:38 together and then Hawk was like what if we just did it just to like make dope ████ you actually said it cuz he was like I just want to make dope stuff that switched my whole mentality I was like D I didn't sound like that quite no I'm pretty sure you did and then him saying that we it instantly became a yes and we're like yeah let's ████ do it and then we heard that um kjas was coming on in replacement of java soft replacement in some weird way they're like yeah we're going to put kindas in and we were like oh what I don't want to do it then why because we felt like them being new they would have an advantage we had literally nothing to lose and because we also understand coming from TV home story is bigger than what you do in the moment and their home story of being like the underdog we always love the underdog card I ████ love it and they have it so hard because not only are
3:28 they um have like one guy that used to be in Java they have another guy from cabba that was like The Unsung true winner in some ways you know like people always wanted cabba to get that win so did we so we just without like being completely unbiased we we would look at them like dude that's who would win but Anthony and them didn't feel that way but we were like whole time we're like ████ that's going to be too hard but then we just said ████ it let's do it anyway it'll be fun Kiss Kiss k k k you guys are hurting me the has to SL the slide first before the FP happens dude what is that kind of Y that [Applause]
4:24 looks that was pretty good foundation a easy yes I love it but we ended up going there so it was all the past champions from seasons 1 2 3 4 6 s not one because sorry 2 3 4 67 yeah and uh and doing it again felt like literally like it it's so surreal because you you go there and you see the old logos the stage is built and um and we didn't know at the time that it was really truly just a vehicle to promote
5:15 the VMA it wasn't so much that they gave a ████ that ABDC was coming back the network they were just like we need some way to get people to watch the VMA so the best way to do that Video Music Awards oh that okay yeah yeah so what they did is they called it AB DC road to the VMA which sounds like the Winner's going to perform at the VMA but you just get to go to the VMA that sucks in the audience that sucks um and uh because at the time like as you guys know it becomes harder and harder for um networks to get people to watch award shows for some reason they're just on the decline yeah they got to come up with like all these ways to like get your brain to remember to slap someone best lesbian kiss yeah you got to they got to find ways so and then I'm changing the channel that's how they did
6:05 that they were like let's make ABDC come back because it's cheaper to do than make a new show we're going to get some eyes and those eyes are going to be reminded that the VMA is a thing that's as I understand it so we go through the whole [Music] [Applause] season unbelievable as one seriously you killed it Ryan are you okay with that flip I don't know how you hair on fle I live this performance was absolutely amazing the balls to pull that number off
6:57 [Music] I am me and Quest Crew you are the bottom two and the bench is kind of that symbol of hey man like eventually you got to sit down and take a rest and this piece is about us trying not to take that rest we have the ability to pretty much do whatever we want this week last week we had outfits all these different types of props pants dressing rooms this time it's just Quest Crew and a bench we're just going to attack the piece that way Simplicity you're taking a risk and you're just saying here we are I guess you're known for that Four 3 2 [Applause] [Music]
7:52 [Applause] [Music] one all [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] damn like that just and uh it goes well I thought Quest reached its prime before but we hit it with that bench piece I feel like cuz that was literally like our magnum opus that was like our whole story I guess we had always thought that we were just a tricks crew or entertainment crew but for the first time like ever we were
8:42 able to convey like an emotion and that was completely new and I think at that moment we just thanked each other for making it possible the reason I want to win is that would just be the most rock and roll book end for the story of Quest Crew Quest Crew and this season's new contenders kingas here is Quest Crew here live at the 1984 Video Music Awards joined by [Music] the hottest artist of today [Music] this woman is my
9:34 [Applause] [Music] [Applause] destiny well I'm a guy and I say keep your pants off I think some of the best stuff happens when you really think you're retiring some of the best furniture sales happen when when they're going out of [Music] [Applause] [Music] business Ryan and man hair on flake yeah
10:28 [Applause] we H women H bottles we got all with the Deon and FL season 3 Champs Quest [Music] Crew in the winter in the spring from June to December you I my [Applause] [Music]
11:19 heart ABDC Allstar Champion [Music] is Quest Crew [Applause] we win and it's ████ amazing like we like not downplaying it at all it's probably one of the greatest things that happen because in my 30s I totally thought that I couldn't do something like that again and you guys won with dricks yeah and we won with d the crew back together exactly yeah it's still honestly unreal I don't think it's actually hit us yet it even made us go through and experience that they're the reasons why we're here you know like what every they're they make the the decision and the amount of support that we just got from everybody we are
12:09 Quest um and we we got to make a lot of things that we're proud of so that's where it comes into play about this Amy award so with the way that the emys works is you're actually supposed to submit something to them and they have to review it and tell you if it's like worthy to be considered I don't believe you can submit something from a show that's only had one season I don't think so I can't remember there's some things that make it like your show has to have been around for a while so because ABDC is the same IP that's been around forever it counts we decided to submit uh three of our pieces and um those three pieces ended up being considered there's no guarantee that it'll be one of the nominations but besides that you can't win as a crew like you there's no creu in the emms like you have to nominate one person to be the choreographer uh if
12:59 you look back at the history it's always a person winning it we were like well we can't have it any other way cuz we're ████ Communists so we're like it has to be Quest Crew and we went back and forth to them a lot about it uh eventually they were like fine we're going to change the ████ rules this once and then you can you can be eligible as a crew and then uh we ended up finding out that we were one of the nominees and we're like oh ████ that's ████ nuts and they're doing it as Quest Crew uh and I remember Hawk was the one who really fought for the uh for the nomination to it's a lot of work for some reason it's not as easy as like emailing it and going like Hey we're this guy and we do this you have to kind of do a lot of back and forth and conversations and ████ and hog did all of that cuz you're fighting like a governing body kind of yeah it's like it's a lot of ████ yeah so then um we go
13:51 to the ceremony which is ████ nuts I brought my mom and then um it's a trip it's like the it's like Vanessa h is announcing it and ████ uh and then uh yeah we we won What's called the um it's called The Creative Arts Emmy for Outstanding choreography it's the only Emmy you can get for dance on TV and it's the same award that like Paulo Abdul won in like 1989 or whatever yeah it's the same one that uh like every dance Idol in history like at some point was up for this Emy it's like super historical and then uh and win it they ended up picking two winners actually for that um that award it was us and this this other girl named cat Burns who's responsible for anything that you've seen on TV that's funny choreography you know she used to work
14:42 for UCB back in the day she did freak dance yeah she have freaked dance oh [Music] yeah yeah so she ended up doing Key and Peele [Music] she did like she choreographs all the like comedy based dance stuff which make it means she's like a master of helping somebody's comedic delivery come out physically she's a wizard at that so she wins it too and um and the award uh I wanted Hawk to keep it because he was the one that fought the hardest for uh getting the nomination on there they don't make like a bunch for everyone in the crew like no they they only give you one and then if you want another one you
15:33 I think you can pay for it but it doesn't come out as a statue it's like a plaque I didn't get one I was just like whatever but uh yeah originally I was just I didn't really have a lot of faith I was like whatever it I don't know if that'll they'll they'll pick us but then Hawk was like no let me like try so he just kept like like writing the letters and whatever you you go up on stage yeah you go up on stage you accept it I did the speech um I think a lot of people it's the creative arts enemy so it doesn't go on the actual TV show where you watch the enemies yeah all the people that win for uh lighting or whatever the ████ it's like not it's not included I remember the Fine Brothers one one and same ████ yeah yeah yeah yeah I think out of everything we've ever won that would be probably the biggest in the way that I'm able to tell somebody and they would know what I'm talking about yeah so I wouldn't
16:23 have to say like it's a ████ MTV dance show where you do this stuff it's like if you just say it's an Emmy they get what they know what an em is yeah and it's I think like me and Eris talk about it sometimes and we think back to like when we were just like idiots practicing in a ████ driveway it's like you would never think guys like that would ever get an Emmy for something it's so far-fetched we laugh at it all the time because it's such a prestigious award for like a group of ████ meanderthals and uh yeah that would have been um if it wasn't for ABDC coming back we wouldn't have had a shot at that we would not have had a shot and it had to be ABDC because it would have to be a show that's been around so let's say we got on a new show we wouldn't have been eligible anyway could have made the best pieces possible wouldn't have been considered it just happened to work out perfectly that's crazy you're winning an Emy for a um reality TV show though like it just doesn't happen yeah I mean they
17:14 it happens cuz they have two categories unscripted and scripted so like happens cuz they it's like best reality show you could get one for 90day fiance I mean godamn not choreography but yeah I don't know if you could I don't know if you could you'd have to get it for specific or specific thing right thing yeah it would have to be like a I don't know I don't know if reality shows just get it for just being a good show his best choreography on unscripted TV so the way that it works is like the other people that were up for it are people that maybe did really outstanding pieces on Dancing With the Stars or something really good for like um I don't know like um they did there was like a Disney special on TV or something like beting the Beast or something yeah like stuff like that it's like you're going up against Heavy Hitters it's probably the coolest thing that like I can tell my parents about even though they're next
18:04 right next to that is the ████ just being on a Filipino show hell yeah it's almost equal how was that like a pivotal moment where you like how did that affect you I guess I think it was the most adult reward for something that we've ever done cuz we always looked at what we did as childish in a way like it is very like youthful it legitimizes what you guys do it's very like it's very uh I guess like um like Hokey kind of you know like even we don't take dance that seriously either we still think it's kind of silly in different ways but if you get an Emy it almost makes it look like oh this is fine wine same time you know it's not just Welches grape know you have like this lemonade stand and then one day like minute Ma wants to buy you and you're like oh ████ I think it it also has that death effect where like if you
18:56 die that liveses on because like that's record the same way that we see ████ um Jean Kelly with one or something you know like it's on the list of like this year they won this year they won this year and when you look at that list of of choreographers through time like these are the people that made their Mark and it's crazy that like oh ████ when you look it up we're on there you know did they list your guys' name or just the crew it's just say Quest Crew yeah first of its kind which is what we wanted we didn't want yeah and it is the first that's the crazy thing too is they're like they were telling us like yeah they did this because you guys brought it up there was no other situation that would have they don't have to do cruise that's they're like no one else has been communist like that they usually like they have leader yeah yeah it was really nice of them to like bend the rules for the first time and
19:46 they just be like okay we'll just put Quest Crew cuz I'm sure other teams have wanted that production teams probably wanted their whole team the team name or what the so what did they have to do in the past like some like their legit LLC or something appoint a person oh one person yeah let's say that you're a company like you have to you have to decide who's the guy that gets oh wow yeah you have to just pick it but we're like we'll never be able to pick that cuz we're all so responsible for what happened yeah it's really like typical like kind of uh corny ████ but like we were like damn it would just be so cool if it's so weird how they fought back like I think they it's just nobody wants to do extra work I it's very simple it's like H we got a form for that already yeah they already have thing they have a field they type just this thing and they're like done with the day do you go to like a Governor's Ball after or some ████ like that yeah yeah yeah there was
20:36 a Governor's Ball across the street from the yeah what's a Governor's Ball how was that it just seems like any other party you know Governor's Ball no I thought you were joking no no that's TR what they call it yeah after the ostos after the emms I think they have a Governor's Ball and like so the governor of the state is there hosting I don't know if it's I have no idea I think it's just a no that's the governor yeah yeah yeah I think it's just called Governor's Ball but it's just just a fancy party like a Gala yeah the unpublicized part of the show it's like an it's like an Afterparty that's like just supposed to be really prestigious and cool yeah so all of the people that were a part of it or is it the VM or basic it is yeah it's like everybody they move from the auditorium or the I think it was at winners only serly it's nominees too invited to the actual it's like the people who were like the the finalists all it's like we just move across the
21:26 street to this other venue and then uh it's just like a fancy dinner with you guys have tables like a like a and then there's people talking and yeah and it's like it's like fancy ass food but because it's the creative arts Emy that happens on a different day than a normal enemies it's a completely different set of people so is it like behind the scenes industry people versus it's more it's more behind the scenes people but then because the presenters of the creative arts emies are still the main celebrities you'll still see Vanessa hudgin and whoever was like they'll still be there yeah yeah but there's going to be less of them and more like Blue Collar dudes yeah can I ask you a question nobody's ever asked you before I think what what's Mario Lopez like here is the season 3 champ Quest Crew I don't actually care can move on you actually don't care no I don't I do I do though he's I really like him a lot he's
22:17 very cool I heard he's really really cool he's very cool and he and the trippiest thing about him is when you're sitting this far away from him he really doesn't have wrinkles wow wow that fo really he looks the same for the last like 20 years gen he's a genetic anomaly I don't understand how he looks that good he got pissed one time because ████ dietr is always saying dumb ████ and then uh one time we were doing a mockup of on ABDC when in order to like get rid of favoritism whatever every team has to practice being a winner so they go oh the winner is Quest Crew and you have to like do the blocking for camera as if you won we have to rehearse it so every team has to do that so it doesn't look like they're only rehearsing the one they know wins yeah so we did that and then uh Mario was like how does it feel to be the winner and then he put on dri his mouth and Dom goes uh it feels great to get an award
23:07 from AC Slater and like we had heard moments before that that's the one thing you shouldn't say to Mario cuz he doesn't like that he doesn't like that and of course D well you know he's getting called Slater everywhere he goes yeah I know they told us Slater AC Slater they told us not to say that Jessie whatever you do it was that it was like ████ he hates it heard it a million times just don't do it and then Dom looked him straight in his eye and said and he you could tell he was just like ████ drix dude what did he what did Mario Lopez do he did he went like he literally like he took it like just like that just super and I think ever since then he's kind of been he's kind of been like ████ The Quest Crew I don't know maybe sick no I don't think so because because one of our members his name's Nikki T he's the only white guy in quest cre he's Mario Lopez is like personal like dance trainer I don't know
23:58 what if see Mario Lopez it's your job to yell yo Slater that's like the most iconic ████ that he's done like why fuing Duty as an American I think he just hates hearing it as a joke cuz it's so typical honestly AC Slater might be the most likable guy in television of all time dude dude think so that dude is he's honestly really ████ likable man I mean AC Slater not I heard he doesn't tip that good oh really y from where my wife served him a couple times really she says that he always came in with his whole ████ family and then like he tipped like ████ oh no he TI like 10% oh no that's sad ████ funny you know what's you know it's a really funny thing about that Emmy that I just thought of so like Aeris wasn't he was on ABDC 8 for one episode the thing I'm most excited about this week is that we get to finally introduce our ninth member of Quest Crew
24:53 AIS I'm actually one of the original members of Quest Crew before the guys decided to to ABDC I had to choose between doing that or going to Japan for a month and a half now that ended I came straight home with my best friends oh the last one yeah the last episode wasn't a competition episode they already knew the winner by that point so they don't give a ████ what you do yeah so we were like can we have AIS do the show with us cuz you know we're not competing anymore whatever so Aris does that one episode and gets like the most camera time for some ████ reason cuz he's lucky he's the most gloaty about the Emmy out of anybody really all the ████ yeah it it's It's the funniest ████ ever does he carry it with him everywhere goes he doesn't have it he has a tattoo but like
25:43 if if there's a moment to mention it he'll always mention it and he'll just be like uh ammy winner like he'll always like do that ████ to people it's so funny as you should if you talk about another dancer or whatever like yeah they ████ he's like oh really did they win an Emmy he's like you about it it's the best ████ yeah he brings it up all the ████ time yeah the best is when people think that I'm being very serious about it that's my that's my very favorite thing you he might be more serious than you want to look J which is even better wow that's is yeah that is better [Laughter]
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